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Tue 10 Oct 2009Tax on child benefit fairest for low-income families
OPINION: WITH INTENSE pressure to cut Government spending, child benefit – which goes to all families with children regardless of income – is very much in the firing line. While cuts in social welfare rates generally have not been ruled out, it has been signalled that child benefit will certainly be targeted, write TIM CALLANand BRIAN NOLAN
Three options for cutting the cost of child benefit have been considered by the McCarthy report and the Commission on Taxation: making it taxable, reducing the payment rate for everyone, or means-testing it.
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